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Strikeout at The Boilerplate: Court Rules For Fan Contesting Fine Print On Baseball Ticket

JonathanTurley

In my torts class, we discuss sports torts and defenses. One of those issues is the common inclusion of waivers and binding arbitration language on the back of tickets in microscopic type. That issue came up in an interesting case involving the Chicago Cubs.

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Plaintiff’s judgment for student hit by shot put thrown by coach affirmed.

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He had played several sports before but had never “participated in shot put and was not familiar with the event.” He stayed home for 2-3 weeks before being released to return to school, and he was eventually released to return to sports. The Court even pointed out that defendants’ own internal investigation concluded that “Mr.

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Stern Rebuke: Auburn University Hit With Punitive Damages in Free Speech Case

JonathanTurley

In that case, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of public high school teacher Marvin Pickering, who wrote a letter to the local newspaper criticizing a school board’s allocation of funding for athletic programs. He argued that academic integrity was being sacrificed for sports. 205 , 391 U.S. 563, 574 (1968).

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Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v.

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MSNBC Analyst Calls for Liability for Boebert and Carlson … for the Colorado Shootings

JonathanTurley

Boebert and Carlson are outspoken in their opposition to gender transitioning for children, transgender athletes competing in girl’s sporting event, and other current controversies. The most obvious form of civil liability would be some type of tort action. The Court in cases like New York Times v. In Brandenburg v.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The proposed intervenors had argued that “[t]he public deserves to see documentation of the effort by a tort lawyer to help his tort campaign against by enlisting the New York Office of Attorney General, successfully, if in pursuit of terribly unsuccessful prosecution at a cost, clearly, of millions of taxpayer dollars.”